Sketchbook

I've been struggling with choosing a main idea for COP. There are so many options to explore and so many things in today's society that could be depicted really effectively in illustrations. 

I decided to try out the theme of promoting a healthy lifestyle and how companies make money off human's evolutionary and biological taste for salt and sugar. (Salt dehydrates and makes you crave water however our brains often mistake this for craving more salt. When we were hunting and gathering food that was scarce it was sugar and energy we desperately needed... this is not the case anymore but we still crave it as we did!) Companies get rich off this and the government often does not do much to restrain this as it is such a huge part of the economy.

I also think getting out into nature and exercising is great for physical and mental health but it is something that sadly in much of today's society is something we have to make time for and seems hard to fit in. This needs to change!

However I think I need to push myself to looking at a more socio-political issue, one that I care very strongly about, sexism. I mean sexism in the theme of men in power and I think unfortunately a lot of people are ignorant to how unfair society is. Most people feel that because women were not even allowed to vote, and now they can, and they have choice legally to do the same as men, that everything is now equal. However you only have to look at statistics to see it is clearly not equal, women's oppurtunities are often reduced by societies standards and opinions and that over the past 10 years a lot of improvements have slowed down. People are now wondering if things are getting worse, 'lad culture' and 'celebrity culture' and the media all impacting of girls and boys ideas of how to be. 

• I will explore the statistics that most of us are ignorant to. 
• I will also explore whether things in society have actually got worse or if it is just under more media attention. 
• I will also explore laws and whether we particularly as a young generation really understand what is 'banter' and what is actually within our human rights to refuse.
• I think I could use questionnaires and interviews to explore the opinions of those around me particularly in my generation and those younger and older than me. 

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